Telegraphic.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7620, 18 December 1886, Page 2

Telegraphic.

■ '* ', ■ '■ .'■•'- -, [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I . • Auckland, Friday. \- - A protest against the elecf ibnior Waite- > . - raata, on the ground that, new names' , were added to the roll after the issue of '■ the writ, will be made at the declaration I „ of the poll; and will be forwarded ta the Colonial Secretary at Wellington. ■••'•'■• " : .The Epiphany Ohnrch difficulty about ' the boundaries has been amicably settled >• ■ by the two sets of trustees.' ' ' ■--.'. ; , - ; -The contractor, for the new Ponsonby |. reservoir has agreed to .complete the same- 1 , \ under the amended plans for the origiual ' contract price, £12j140. As the embanks ■ meat has ' settled vertically ta-som&' ; . extent remedial measures will be at once- ;■■ taken. -- -' - - .'■ :< •'-.■■ .|'--. • As some evidence of the. depression in i - the timber trade it may lie mentioned that' I v seventeen million feet of timber, at the I ' Taurua booms are awaiting a market; ' . ' ■ In the Divorce Court to-day a rule i' .absolute, was granted in', the. case, of : I. Faw,cett v. Fawcett and Downing, - ; , ; i : Two boys, Wilson and- Speera, were to-" ! ■ day' 1 , ordered to be whipped for stealing a. ' parcel of socks from a draper's door. ',"■}'■ '„ GriSBOKNE, Friday; . ~ '■ ■ The Supreme Court was occupied all-! yesterday and until 1 a.ra; ■ to-day in the ' • ) case of Gannon and another v. Reads. •! trustees and the New ZealajidXands Set-; "<}■• tlement'Company. The plaintiffs claimed""" "■? by. purohase a valuable; interest : in the -V, „; Matawh'ero No. 1 block, near Gisborne. '■ The special jury found on all issues in. '' favor' of the plaintiffs. A motion as to - < ; " the legality of the constiution ,of the '■'„ Harbor Board came'beforethe Court, bub ■ the' Chief Justice without hearing argu-' , ment for. the defence declared tKe Board '-, ■-, legally constituted. . „•■ „•','.■ '•'„:' •"■'■' . Makxon, Friday.;- :. In sinking a well here, some auriferous ■ stratum was discovered at a depth of 30 • feet. . Specks of finescalygold were found ': :■ freely in the black sand throngh a layer . 1 - "two" feet thick. "It islsuggesled that the Government should prospect the interior, "'.;.,; as the gold has -evidently been, brought ■• :.' down from the mountains. V ; . :' Wellington, Friday. ''.-..; WhenthesteamerMawhe'rawaawrecked; '■'. '•'■ at Westport last month the Nautical Courts ,- suspended Captain flill'a. certiiicate for- ' • three months. Subsefykently a petition -'.' was got .up, praying the. Governor 'tore- ■ . store the certificate, arid the request has ' been acceded to. - • : ■ :" On Aijcaiday, at Aowlianga, a settlement' , between Cape Tiirnagnin aniCastlepoint, '- a Maori g^rl about. JQ-yeaTs of age, a . ■ daugh ter of Hori Tftkl, was burnt to death. ' i The child was lifting potatoes off. the lire, • ■"'■ when her clothes became ignited*, "and ,".. before, the. ilamos- were, extiugnished s'be y . \vas so seriously " burnt as to cause her. 1 f death. , ■ ■' 5 ■-,■■■[•'.■-. -'■'.■ ;• The English, mails by the lonic will be ■ bronglit ovejf by the Manapouri, which ' leaves ljol)art to-day for the Bluf j, . . • ' . ■' A» the Resident. Magistrate's Gpnrt to 1 - -,- day' Brennan, charged 'with, indecent.-ass-ault, was acquitted . tlu'ojigli; irisuffici- ■ . : ency of evidence. '_. . ' . •"-"': ' • . AVesteobt, Fridaj'. •.".■ ':-■ The Union Companj r .liaye auuouheed' • ' : their intention to. suspend opQ*a,tion¥ at' !>- --tUa end of the year at the Ivoranui mine. -.'>■ This is regarded with grea.t public anxiety..] . ' ; Captain Riley, of thi?, town, has orderedSL^ a steel tujj steanxer from. England. Slie^B will be put. together in Westport. • \'^ .Henry Walker, a fireman belonging tof>' \ tl\c. steamer Wai eata; while going aboard ' fell off the gangway into tlie nv.er.ando" •■' was drowned. The body has not yet been , recovered.. , ' .; '.. The steamer Tui has been lifted off the-- •■■ ' : " ■ bottom, with the exception ofthe forefoot.. , . . It is hoped, that she, will be tow«d into* • ' shallow wateer to-morrow. , • ' . - CHEiSTCHUECHi Friday. . . ,' Mr John Lewis Coster, M.H.R. for. •' • Heathcote, died at Opawa. thia afternoon - after a long illness. Ho was about' 50 ' ■'< years of nge, the so« of a medical man at - ■ :- Exeler. He Oftwe out nearly. 30 .years ago, to Sydney, and shortly after, .came : ' ovev to, New Zealand.; He was for a- little - ■• time an officer of the Unioa Qank, and soon after he joined the- Bank of New ■ . Zealand. He Worke(\ up its business ia •.-..■ Christcuurch , \y\th great , energy an* ; ability, ani\ became manager at a. comparatively early age. He took a prorai- . ' vent pai-trin fo.unding the New Zealand Loan, ,and Mercantile Agency Company,, r- ' and wns one of tho principal promoters of ' '■> ■ the New Zealand Shipping, Company at v V its formation in 1873; and was elected the. :'.'.■■•'; first chairman of directors in 1881. Ha .''."■ then resigned the managership of • the" V . ; Bank of New Zealand, and was appointed 'y( managing director,, of the New Zealand - " Shipping Company, a position which, with,- •'-■'.' tliq chairmanslnp.ho held till Mawh last> '•■'■?• when, failing ; health . Compelled him to-, resign. Dnring:lns term of office he twice, . visited England oil business! connected- . with the direct steam service, of which he ; was virtually the fonnder.. . ....;,-. . . Dunedin, Friday. ., : ." At the breaking up of one of the schools ' " ; to-day Sir Robert Stout quoted statistics '• to show that the .charge brought against. '-/■-. our system of education, that it, had af'V,. tendency t to produce"- criminals, was un- j , -^ founded.' If the statistics concerning '".I- $-; cliildr'en bornihtho colony were taken, it ' .• ; would be found that tliey stood far above; .., ''.v the children bfariy country. in^the world.'-' ..(..'•!' A deputation will wait'ori'tlie'Prehiier ." V; to-'morrbw to bring under his notice ! ,tlie'. ;VV hardship imposed on freelibWers of 'snialK-x' v : , township sections in -being debarred fron£ -:'■': v}, applying under the homestead system. *":';••.; r£ ' Tl'ie. captain. o£ the- South Durie^in'i-'^^ Volunteers bei'iig .of opinion tliai^ ma'uy 6£. ! ■» -X? tlie members pf-his company Kre. not de--;,'//i'"<: sirable' 'members lias callra;upon abbpt ':. ;U;s 20 men to resign niiS handin their ar.msl\'ii;>vs ; The. Bpsl.yu,-Bprongli, i Cbnncil.' ; ha^9'vV>^: resolved" "!tV impose ,^',-Sp.eoial' rate r 6f ; - 3d 'sss. in 'the. £1. jia order; to odinply SvitV'the ...i'-,:S, demand' of the' Qouiicil'si contnbiitiom^The;': papers%i\' ]^A deinariding;-'thd- rate;ftro< : ]io 'be mmmemmm